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> > This version implements 4Mb pages on hardware that support it (Pentium+
> > without VCPI).
> 
> Should we modify `getpagesize' to sense this and report the right
> size?

I don't think so.  getpagesize() is often used for efficient
malloc'ing of memory, and we don't want programs allocating 8M of
memory and throwing half of it away to get a 4M aligned page.

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